Well I don't know what else to do. I already said I don't want to be a YouTuber. I'm only on YouTube because I know it sells books. I've said it a million times--if I could sell books just making a few tweets about it instead of doing YouTube, I'd quit YouTube.
I just don't have fun with it. You like to talk to people and you've got charm, and it's easy for you to laugh at weirdos.
I just like to be alone and read and write. I'm not very outgoing and don't like to put on a show.
Nasser I can sense you're feeling a bit irritated at the information superhighway today.
It's understandable, what with you being a returning CGer who recently spurned 2X4CG
(Too Exxxxtreme For CG) icon Doug TenNapel, and today marking Doug's blistering ascent to 100K subs, as he celebrates on a livestream with fellow 2X4CG member Tim Lim to several hundred viewers. And
Zippy is there! Fucking Zippy, ugh.
It must be absolutely galling for you, as a CGer who just a little while ago told Doug to go kick rocks, to have to now sit there watching The Dirtworm Channel soar like a rocket, as he livestreams his stubbed-out cigarette of a face to 600+ viewers, opining on conservatism, God, and how he doesn't wash his hands because germs are everywhere and this foolish human 'washing war' against them is unwinnable and futile.
I get it Nasser. It stings. It's like you sold all your WormCoin and suddenly now WormCoin is flying to the moon, right?
It must feel like God is mooning you, as in showing his butt at you.
And that's not to mention charismatic 2x4CG firebrand Eric July aka YoungRippa59
rocking Tim Pool's show last night, a 3+ hour political spergfest that has already blown past a quarter of a million views in 18 hours.
It must be annoying for you, I get it. But don't feel bad, it's just that these are very political times. Doug has latched onto the next big 'gate', which is seemingly AmericaGate.
And this one seems like might go on for a while, I'm afraid. Or maybe not, I suppose it depends on how long America lasts.
Anyway, I think with the Worm breaching 100K at such a blistering pace,
@FROG should be bracing himself for Dirty Doug going
nnnnnnyyyyooowwww right over his channel subcount very soon.
Who knows where the Worm will end up! But surely his personality will have a dampening effect, like a handbrake. I don't think he'll hit a million. Surely not! He couldn't get a million subs... could he? Not with Zippy, surely not.
But listen Nasser, you shouldn't be sitting there wishing you were Zippy. You and the Worm are history, you need to focus on not being Frog's Zippy now. By which I mean, the sidekick that viewers don't really take to, like Zippy.
I'll give you my opinion on what you're good at, to help the Nasser Channel.
Your best streams are when you stream with good people. Examples: Dillard, Martina Markota, Frog, even Smiller is vastly more entertaining on your channel than on his own for some reason. And similarly, even Frog is sometimes better on your channel than his own. People have a way of opening up, or loosening up, around you, that can make for very good streams. People are completely not intimidated by you, they get put at ease by you and they get playful with you, so it brings them out of their shell. Even Malin, who has a Rhino-like shell, when he came on your show it melted away.
It's a strange thing, I think you may have missed your true life calling as a therapist, or maybe a bartender.
You may not realize it, but you DO have social skills. And even some charm, apart from those disgusting belches. You can build a good show. You just need to have the right people on, because you change depending on who you're interacting with. With bad company you let yourself get brought down, instead of changing your focus to people who are good company who will bring you up just by their interaction with you.
You like Seinfeld right? You're like Kramer when he got in a fight with the monkey at the zoo. And became a monkey himself in the process. Know what I mean? What you need to be is the Kramer who started his own talk show in his apartment, using stuff he found in the garbage, bringing his friends on as guests. That's all this streaming shit is, it's just people doing that.
If you want to get recommendations on Youtube, the simplest formula is:
have something to say that is worth hearing, about something important that is happening. That's all it is. you can be a musician or a software engineer or a comic book writer, the basic formula is the same. Something worth hearing, about something significant that is happening. If viewers respond to what you have to say, then you'll get that video recommended for that subject. And then if you find a rich seam to mine, you can build a whole channel and income from it.
But if you have no expertise or uniquely engaging take, and you don't care about any of the things that are happening, then getting recommended is going to be a problem for you. So you should focus on the more podcast-like model, with a regular stream and guests that you interview and chat with.
Remember, you're creating a product here, so people will sense what kind of creative product you create from the kind of show you create. It's no good saying, I don't care about putting a crap product on Youtube because I just want to sell books. Your Youtube does reflect on your product, whether you want it to reflect or not. Your Youtube is literally your You-tube, like a tube of You-sauce. And you are offering that sauce to people. So if nobody likes your sauce that means you have a shit sauce, and you need to adjust your sauce to be more palatable. And the way to do that is by bringing in good accompaniments for your sauce, like dippers, and taking out bits of poo and garbage that may be spoiling the sauce.
And be warned, this isn't something to shrug or smirk off. Youtube is a customer-facing environment, that's what
@TESTEFY-HD is trying to get through to you, in his simian way. Every Youtube channel is like a kitchen run by a chef. If I perceive the chef as a dirty, lazy slob who doesn't care about anything apart from getting the money out of my hands and sending me on my way, then I'm certainly not going to buy any food prepared by him, I'm not even going to set foot in the place. However when a chef has something of real delicious value to offer, then the chef can get away with being literally Hitler, like Seinfeld's Soup Nazi. But could every restaurant owner act like the Soup Nazi? Of course not. Only the Soup Nazi has earned the right to be the Soup Nazi, because of the raw fact of all those humans lining up to pay for his work.
Babu, again from Seinfeld, is not going to get very far acting like the Soup Nazi. He had terrible, barely edible food and so he had to make up for it by being the polar opposite of the Soup Nazi.
So there is my Soup Nazi/Babu spectrum theory, indicating an inverse correlation of personality niceness to product marketability. The more your work sells, the more of a jerk you can be. The less your work sells, the more of a nice guy you have to be. Let's end on that.
